frustration
sometimes it doesnt matter how much good you do the wrongs you have done will never be made up fot.
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simplywil
tempered philosophical ideologies that have been forged in the fires of our histories' malcontent. compassion, reason, kindness, objectivity.
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empty glass
someone once said. love is all you need. but it isn't enough. for her to deal with me. it wasn't enough for me to say. I'm doing my best for us. every day. because it wasn't enough. to make you stay.
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in a nut's shell
the rancor that is our calamitous "democracy" wears grooves within the psyche that, honestly, i can appreciate the masses disengagement from. it all feels like which lie do we find solace within.
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Role Models
Thomas Jefferson, Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Harvey Milk, Alan Dean Foster, Carl Sagan, George Carlin, Abraham Lincoln, Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla... these are my role models.
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American and in Washington D.C.
from a dear friend of mine visiting Washington D.C. "DC is the most oxymoron place on earth.
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just saying
art is rarely recognized in it's own time as being art. popular art is always replaced by new popular art..
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Nevermind the Raven's Nevermore
were there ever a time where there was not a moment more. it may be that the light at the end of that tunnel. is the beginning of another life for you once more. let the raven say what it will.
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American't
America is a nation that I feel, with great sadness, that has never ascended to the level of greatness it has convinced itself it is made of.
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when i see you smile
i cant help but entertain some thoughts such honest company whispering sweet nothings wondering what was fraught with me where calamity reigns serene can not help but tend all the scars that remind...
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American Government - A Synopsis
it's akin to playing a game of chess except they make illegal moves every time you close in on them and they change the rules so that when they do it, it is a legal move.
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Double Standard LLC
someone explain something to me that I really do not understand. how is it that the United States government is engaged in a war against militant islamic extremist groups in Afghanistan...
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Denial
i have nothing but appreciation and love for followers of religion. their dedication to denial helps to remind me why it is bad for you..
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observation
i am really unpopular with the opuss crowd. i wonder what it is that people really like on here, as far as content goes..
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reciprocation
if i had only one wish that could be granted it would be that the suffering and pain people inflict on others would immediately be inflicted upon them..
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hearts are joking
promises made behind these wounds i no longer feel. looking for an answer that is not real. you say to me i will realize when my eyes and heart are open. too bad you slammed the door in my face.
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one day
Before I die and leave this body I am in for wherever it is I am to go, I want to live to see one of my deepest wishes come true. One day that no person dies..
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the truth beckons us all
the truth beckons any that would hear even the deaf are unable to turn their ear helen keller saw our reality a world formed by conformity to a constricting curse living in it from birth she saw...
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Awakening
Often in this life it feels like I am one, in a crowded room, but no one else can see me.
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Reward the Wealthy and Punish the Poor
in this thousands of years old tale, we see the same archetypal narrative emerge on the stage. the doors and darkened passageways by which the characters appear are all different.
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State's Secrets
this whole business of government secrets and secret agencies with no names... ...it says something.
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the greatest feeling
i turned 29 years old last week. i am the father of a beautiful 3 year old girl. i was napping in my recliner on my birthday when my wife and daughter came home.
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the dream world
all that is or ever was is but a dream within a dream. -edgar allen poe but what if you wake up from that dream. what if you see the dream and you are awake.
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war and profit
it is no feat of mental genius to discern that wars will continue as long as there are businesses and people willing to profit from them. where there is a war, there are banks financing it.
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keynes and ayn rand - they are wrong
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand for those out there that worship this author, their philosophy, and the rhetoric it has caused, read this.
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Intelligent Design
on the face of it, it can not be disproved any more than it can be verified. when one has a belief or favored thinking, one will always find evidence to support it.
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mistakes make us
every mistake i've ever made got me to today if i could go back in time to tell my child self what to do i'd say to myself, "Son, just do you.".
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humorous
to live in a world where others must die so that others can live it is madness, pure and simple what if everyone were conditioned to believe this to be status where they sent theirs off to be...
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exo-philosophy
human thinking in regards to where our species stands comparative to a proposed other species capable of inter-stellar (or intergalactic) travel is pretty primitive.
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final chamber
there are two ways to enter the final chamber, free or not free. the choice is ours. -jean-paul sartre.
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paradoxisms
Children whine about taking a nap. Adults whine because they want one. life is a paradox..
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walls
Sometimes I put up walls. Not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to knock them down. -unknown.
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Tomorrow Before Today
Becoming a parent has made it apparent, I must first wake those that are sleeping before change for the unborn's future can be ushered in. Today's selfishness is tomorrow's lack of any thing.
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May the Fourth be with You
im sick of the tv trying to steal me selling me what i should be on their plasma hdtv crystal sharp screens vibrant colors enticing the docile in to a trance go the sheep politicians trying to...
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that moment
when you think you should kiss them, but you arent sure if you should, or if they want you to...so you try and it ends in misery. that is the story of how i met your mother, hon.
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